Li Chen soon understood why. This was only the Illusionary Realm, after all, not reality.
The mutated dharma body seemed to possess a meme of the same origin as the Primordial Spirit Virus, with innate infectious and regenerative properties. How it performed in the real world would still depend on his own power of the mind, but here, it was undying and indestructible, impossible to erase.
Even though Zong Yiyang had cultivated to the Primordial Spirit realm, he could do nothing to it without mastering a corresponding level of Root Dao Art.
Looking at the mutated dharma body, which had shrunk to just over a hundred zhang in size, Li Chen suddenly felt a powerful thought rise within him.
What would happen if I continued delving into the Pseudo-Root Dao Art I created?
That move seemed capable of far more than fighting enemies. It could also serve as an indirect means of storing his own primordial spirit, spreading everywhere and regenerating like a virus.
But the prerequisite was... mastering the conversion of primordial spirits into data!
And that skill was intimately connected to artificial primordial spirits.
If he could use Awaken Spirituality on an intelligent program composed of data, refine it into an artifact spirit, and unlock the intricacies of artificial primordial spirits, then naturally, he could also reverse the result and convert a natural living being's primordial spirit into data.
The underlying principles were interconnected in the first place, achieving the same ingenious result through different paths as the conversion between mechanical biomimicry and biological mechanization in matters of flesh and blood.
As the thought stirred, the void before Li Chen suddenly changed, as though the entire universe had begun to spin.
Countless swirling nebulae collided, forming and perishing. In an instant, the universe seemed to have been born